"An Act in regard to roads and bridges in counties under township organization, and to repeal an Act and parts of Acts therein named," approved June 23, 1883: Provided, however, that all officials now holding office under said Act shall continue to exercise and enjoy their respective rights, powers, duties and emoluments as therein provided until the first election of highway officials held under and pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

"An Act to provide for the organization of road districts, the election and duties of the officials therein, and in regard to roads and bridges, in counties not under township organization, and to repeal an Act and parts of Acts therein named," approved May 4, 1887: Provided, however, that all officials now holding office under said Act shall continue to exercise and enjoy their respective rights, powers, duties and emoluments as therein provided until the first election of highway officials held under and pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

"An Act in regard to roads and bridges in counties not under township organization and to provide for the adoption of the same," approved May 10, 1901: Provided, however, that all officials now holding office under said Act shall continue to exercise and enjoy their respective rights, powers, duties and emoluments as therein provided until the first election of highway officials held under and pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

"An Act requiring the destruction of cockle burrs, weeds or plants," approved May 31, 1879.

"An Act to amend sections one (1) and two (2) of an Act entitled 'An Act requiring the destruction of cockle burrs, weeds or plants,' approved May 31, 1879, and by adding thereto sections three (3), four (4) and five (5)," approved June 2, 1895.

"An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads," approved June 18, 1883.

"An Act to protect persons and property from danger from steam engines on public highways," approved June 26, 1885.

"An Act to enable commissioners of highways to condemn lands under the right of eminent domain for the purpose of procuring rock, gravel or other material for building or repairing public roads," approved June 21, 1895.

"An Act authorizing the highway commissioners of any township to construct sidewalks in unincorporated villages," approved June 21, 1895. "An Act concerning travel upon public highways," approved June 21, 1895.

"An Act to regulate the construction of bridges and culverts," approved April 21, 1899.

"An Act to provide for appointment of a good roads commission and to make an appropriation therefor," approved May 15, 1903.

"An Act entitled 'An Act to enable commissioners of highways in counties not under township organization to straighten water courses in the construction of public roads,"" approved May 16, 1905.

"An Act authorizing the commissioners of highways in any township in counties under township organization and the commissioners of highways or boards of county commissioners in counties not under town

ship organization, to maintain earth roads with a drag and to contract for the use of the same and provide penalty for injury to work so done,” approved May 31, 1907.

"An Act making it the duty of counties under township organization and towns in counties under township organization to build, construct and maintain approaches to bridges located on or near town and county lines," approved June 4, 1907.

"An Act to protect turnpike and gravel or macadam roads and to provide a penalty for its violation," approved June 5, 1911.

"An Act to authorize counties changing from township organization to county organization to assess a poll tax, road labor and road tax at any meeting of the county commissioners during the first year after such change," approved May 28, 1879.

"An Act in regard to itinerant camping on public highways," approved April 21, 1899.

"An Act to establish a State Highway Commission defining the duties thereof and to make an appropriation for experimental purposes," approved May 18, 1905.

"Section 16 of an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to township organization,'" approved March 4, 1874, and as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901.

"An Act to provide for the election of the commissioners of highways in counties under township organization, and to legalize the election and official acts of such as were elected in the years 1874 and 1875, and to fix the compensation of the treasurers of such commissioners," approved April 15, 1875.

APPROVED June 27, 1913.

SAFETY APPLIANCES

AN ACT to amend sections 1, 3 and 4 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing for the inspection of equipment and operation of safety appliances on railroads engaged in moving traffic between points in the State of Illinois." [Approved May 12, 1905; in force July 1, 1905.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That three inspectors of automatic couplers, power brakes and grabirons or handholds on railroad. locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles, shall be appointed by the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, within thirty days after this [Act] goes into effect, who shall hold office two years, unless sooner removed for cause, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. At any time a vacancy occurs in this office, the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners shall immediately fill the vacancy by appointment.

No person is eligible to hold this office who is an officer or an employee of a railroad company, or owns or is interested, directly or indirectly, in the stocks or bonds of any railroad company or who has not had at least seven years of practical experience on some line of rail

road operated in the State of Illinois in one or more of the following capacities: Engineer, fireman, conductor, yardmaster, brakeman, train baggageman, switchman, car inspector or car repairer.

§ 3. Said inspectors shall have the right of passing in the performance of their respective duties, over all railroads and upon all railroad trains in this State, and over, upon or in all instrumentalities used by any common carrier in the transportation of persons or property between points wholly within the State of Illinois. Each inspector shall be paid a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per year and necessary expenses, which shall be paid in the manner now provided by law for the salaries and expenses of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners. Said inspectors shall have their offices in the State House, in the office of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, and shall be under the supervision of said commissioners.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the said inspectors to inspect the surface and track conditions of train yards, sanitary condition of cars used in transporting persons between points in Illinois, and investigate train accidents resulting in injury to persons or property. Said inspectors shall inspect the couplers, power brakes, and grabirons or handholds and other portions of cars and engines used by persons on the railroads engaged in moving traffic between points in Illinois, and shall make weekly reports of his [their] inspections, reporting all conditions to the Railroad and Warehouse Commission.

APPROVED June 26, 1913.

SEMI-MONTHLY PAYMENT OF WAGES AND SALARIES BY CORPORATIONS FOR PECUNIARY PROFIT

AN ACT in relation to the semi-monthly payment of wages and salaries by corporations for pecuniary profit, and providing penalty for violation of same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every corporation for pecuniary profit engaged in any enterprise or business within the State of Illinois, shall as often as semi-monthly pay to every employee engaged in its business all wages or salaries earned by such employee to a day not more than eighteen (18) days prior to the date of such payment. Any employee who is absent at the time fixed for payment, or who for any other reason is not paid at that time, shall be paid thereafter at any time upon six days' demand, and any employee leaving his or her employment or discharged therefrom, shall be paid in full following his or her dismissal or voluntary leaving his or her employment, at any time upon three days' demand. No corporation coming within the meaning of this Act, shall by special contract with employees or by any other means secure exemption from the provision of this Act. And each and every employee of any corporation coming within the meaning of this Act shall have his or her right of action against any such corporation for the full amount of his or her wages due on each regular pay day as herein provided in any court of competent jurisdiction of this State.

§ 2. Any corporation coming within the meaning of this Act violating section one (1) of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) or more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each separate offense and each and every failure or refusal to pay each employee the amount of wages due him or her at the time, or under the conditions required in section 1 of this Act, shall constitute a separate offense.

APPROVED June 21, 1913.

SHOT FIRERS IN MINES-"DEAD HOLE" DEFINED

AN ACT to amend sections 2 and 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing that operators of mines shall furnish shot firers in mines where shooting and blasting is done," approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as amended by Act approved May 20, 1907, in force July 1, 1907.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 2 and 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing that operators of mines shall furnish shot firers in mines where shooting and blasting is done," approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as amended by Act approved May 20, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. In all mines in this State where coal is blasted, and where more than two pounds of powder is used for any one blast; and, also, in all mines in this State where gas is generated in dangerous quantities, a sufficient number of practical, experienced miners, to be designated as shot firers, shall be employed by the company, and at its expense, whose duty it shall be to inspect and do all the firing of all blasts, prepared in a practical, workmanlike manner in said mine or mines.

7. No person or persons shall order, command or induce by threat or otherwise, any shot firer to fire any unlawful shot, or any shot which in his judgment, after due inspection, shall not be a workmanlike, proper and practical shot.

No person shall drill or shoot a dead hole as hereinafter defined. A "dead hole" is a hole where the width of the shot at the point measured at right angles to the line of the hole is so great that the heel is not of sufficient strength to at least balance the resistance at the point. The heel means that part of the shot which lies outside of the powder.

APPROVED June 27, 1913.

TEACHERS' PENSION FUND IN DISTRICTS UNDER SPECIAL ACTS

§ 1. Teachers' pension fund in district of 10,000

to 100,000 under special Acts.

§ 2. Board of management.

3. What fund consists of.

4. Control of funds-investments.

§ 5. Who entitled to benefits-classificationscontributions.

§ 6. Contributors-beneficiaries.

§ 7. Resolution declaring maturity of service, etc.

§ 8. Annuities and pensions.

AN ACT to enable any board of school inspectors, or any body or board of officials, which governs, or has charge of the affairs of any school district having a population of not fewer than 10,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants, and governed by special Acts of the General Assembly of this State and in such other districts as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have such population and which school districts are also governed by like special Acts, to establish and maintain a teachers' pension and retirement fund.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all school districts, having a population of not fewer than 10,000, and not more than 100,000 inhabitants organized under and governed by special Acts of the General Assembly of this State and in such other districts as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have a population of not less than ten thousand nor more than one hundred thousand and which may also be governed by any such special Acts, the board of school inspectors, of every such district, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district, may establish and maintain in and for said district a teachers' pension and retirement fund.

§ 2. Said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district wherein the provisions of this Act may be made operative, shall cause to be elected a board of management for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Said board of management shall consist of either three or nine members, as said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district shall determine. Two-thirds of the membership of said board of management shall consist of members of the active teaching force of said district, who are contributors to said pension and retirement fund and they shall be elected by the members of said active teaching force of said district who are contributors to said pension and retirement fund, in such manner and for such terms as said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district shall by resolution determine. One-third of the membership of said board of management shall consist of members of the said board of school inspectors, or the body or board of officials which governs, or has charge of, the affairs of any such school district. Such representa